Sandy Sanders Designs

Awesome high rez astronomy images

Sandy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:53:43 +0000

BittBox has done it again. Click here to go to their post for some beautiful, high resolution, astronomy images…all for free!!

How to make a hand drawn font

Sandy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:48:02 +0000

Another awesome tutorial from BittBox. Here is the link to the tutorial: Hand drawn font tutorial from BittBox.
This tutorial uses Adobe Illustrator and mainly Fontlab Studio, but other font programs can be used also.

Panorama Photo Stitcher, that’s Open Source!!!

Sandy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:18:48 +0000

(logo screenshot from http://hugin.sourceforge.net/)

Cross platform panorama photo stitcher that’s open source!! Check out Hugin I haven’t tried it just yet, but I have downloaded, installed and opened with no problems. As soon as I have something worthy of a panorama pic, I’ll be sure and use this and post it.

Seamless, tiled background images done the easy way!

Sandy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:28:28 +0000

BgPatterns.com is a awesome site for easily making seamless tiled backgrounds. Sure you can do the same thing in photoshop, but it’s actually quite fun making your own background on this site and then downloading the image for free! I was playing around with the site the other night and came up with the background image I’m using now. (Which is subject to change of course.) I saw this tip yet again at BittBox. I know a lot of my design links seem to come from this site but it’s to awesome to pass up. At the very least I’ll have a link of archives to go back and look at cool stuff without a mess of bookmarks. –_–

Seven cool osx tweaks in the terminal…

Sandy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:26:56 +0000

Don’t get me wrong I’m not savvy at all when it comes to the terminal, but here are some cool tweaks over at softpedia.com that even I can do in the terminal. I’m just posting the first tweak which is really easy and makes the finder more friendly when referring to the terminal.
* Force the Finder to display the entire path to a file or directory in the window’s title bar. *
Copy and paste this to the terminal :

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
killall Finder

The second line just quits and re-launches the finder so you can see the result immediately. To turn this tweak off just change the “YES” on the first line to “NO” (with no quotes).

Quick iPhone test…

Sandy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:09:19 +0000

Just a quick post to test the wordpress app for the iPhone to see how it works. Thanks for all the help on the wp upgrade Rob! Best wordpress tech support on the planet folks…. Rob Wert. -_-

Free Acrylic PS Brushes

Sandy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:02:04 +0000

As noted on bittbox.com, check out some cool, free acrylic photoshop brushes from theshoreways.com

Business Card Inspiration from bittbox.com

Sandy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:43:45 +0000

This maybe a older post to their site, but some good inspiration for business cards from bittbox.com.
View the link here!

Another cool free font from bittbox.com

Sandy — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:14:09 +0000

Nice, western style font from bittbox.com. You can download the font from their site here at
Bittbox

Nice tide chart app for OSX - Mr. Tides 3.0!

Sandy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:48:08 +0000

I’ve been using this app for quite awhile now and did not realize how far it has been updated. It always seems to be very accurate and prints out a very nice tide chart with curves and text at the bottom telling you the exact times of the tides. The only problem I’ve had so far with the new version is exporting to iCal, which I should report to their forums soon. Heck I’ve never even exported the tides to iCal before so that’s no biggie for me, more of a luxury than anything. I personally just like to print out the day that I’m going fishing on and throw it in my tackle box.